Patrick's family photos

The errant penguin on board gave us quite a surprise. He went and invited his younger sister to stay for a few days! No checking up front that this would be acceptable of course, she (Poppy) just arrived courtesy of DHL one morning.

Patrick was being caring though. He wanted to find her a nice home and he often thought fondly of his time with Linda (the non Welsh speaking Welsh lady). Remember his RIB trip off Skomer earlier this year?

Pretty accurately, he had figured out that she would look after his sister very well with lots of cwtch time.

Firstly, there were a couple of difficult moments with Bronwen, his spaniel friend. She arrived with their "phantom baby" (see the earlier posts on Machiavellian Steve's behaviour):

Then, having spied Poppy, Bronwen was a bit frosty with our penguin hero:

Until she realised that Poppy was Patrick's sister and was no threat to their "special relationship" then normal relations were restored (no comment):

Just so you don't miss out, here are Patrick, Poppy and the phantom baby in what would be quite a nice family photo if they were mum, dad and baby:

For those who struggle to tell Penguins apart, Patrick is the rather handsome one on the left.

Luckily, Linda agreed to adopt Poppy following a pleading letter from Patrick and so we now have a much quieter boat again. Back to one penguin mouth to feed.